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Watch: Very Large Telescope uses giant lasers in hunt for black holes
On a mountaintop in Chile sits the world鈥檚 most powerful optical telescope, searching for the edge of black holes, and using huge lasers to guide its gaze
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World’s most powerful telescope takes us to the edge of a black hole
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2018鈥檚 weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons
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Space
2019 Preview: We will see the first ever picture of a black hole
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If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind
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LIGO found four more pairs of black holes, including the biggest yet
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Humans
Don’t Miss: social media violence, lowdown on AI, scary black holes
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What it’s like to be sucked into a black hole 鈥� without dying
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Stephen Fairhurst: Gravitational wave hunting
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Gravitational waves from black hole pairs could act like tractor beams
When two black holes orbit one another, they create a swirling vortex of gravitational waves that could trap any nearby objects like a sci-fi tractor beam
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Sneak peek at Hawking’s last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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Jim Al-Khalili: A brief history of gravity
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10 mysteries of the universe: What makes supermassive black holes?
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Freak gravitational waves could form black holes and destroy Earth
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